Preface
November 13, 2022, it was obviously an ordinary day, but it was a special day for the University of Virginia in the United States.
That night, The University of Virginia in the United States, killing 3 people and injuring 2 people. The three dead were all members of the school's football team. Among the two injured students, one was in a stable condition and one was in critical condition.
student rugby athlete Christopher Darnell Jones Jr. is named a suspect and is being tried.
Our views on this shooting that took place on campus are more amazed at the difference in social stability in the United States.
The social problems of the United States
The United States is a strong country in terms of overall national strength, but compared with the relative stability of our country, the United States has scared many people.
This country is a country that is violent and has many social security risks.
The United States has always been a country that boasts of freedom and democracy. In American culture, rules and constraints are existences that bind human nature.
In today's era, this culture has become an excuse for all emergencies. Young people are exposed to violence too early and have a respect for violent culture. In their hearts, if they can solve things with violence, don’t talk about them with their mouths. Violence is also a way of freedom.
Therefore, bullying incidents are common in campuses, and security issues are particularly significant. In addition, the United States is an immigrant country that has diverse races but lacks inclusion. Their racial discrimination is a serious social problem.
There are more contradictions in this discriminatory culture, and it is unforeseeable what kind of things a person will do when he is angry.
Faced with such a situation, the US authorities simply do not take it seriously. Many police officers neglect their duties and do nothing at all, and social stability has been repeatedly challenged.
The most terrifying thing is that gun management in the United States is extremely relaxed, and everyone can own a gun and carry it with them, which seriously threatens the lives and safety of ordinary people.
The emotions of the people can be expressed in extreme ways without being responsible, and the entire society will inevitably be in turmoil.
Let’s look at a statistics. The United States ranks first in the world in terms of the number of private guns owned by html, with a population of 3.309 billion actually owned by nearly 250 million guns, and most of the people owned by have more than one gun.
These guns are not only used for collection, but more for daily use. Americans buy 7 billion bullets every year, which rose to 9 billion in 2008. Where are the purchases of so many bullets used?
It’s terrible to think about it carefully! There are countless tragedies caused by guns.
On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy died tragically under a gun. At that time, he was accompanied by the mayor and took an Lincoln convertible sedan to the central block.
No one would have thought that Kennedy, who was waving, would be shot twice. At that time, blood mixed with brain matter gushed out, and even with his peers, he had no time to react. Even if he was sent to the hospital, it would be useless.
Kennedy is not the only president to be shot. The most recent one is president who just took office for 69 days in 1981.
is not just the president, but also many famous figures, such as the leader of the black civil rights movement, Martin Luther King, who was only 39 years old when he was shot and killed, and the shot was taken when he went to Memphis to lead the workers' movement.
Even these people were easily shot, let alone ordinary people.
Too many people just shoot at the crowd with reasons of revenge on society.
A serial murder case of sniper rifle occurred in Washington in 2002, killing more than a dozen people. In 2007, a student shot and killed 32 people on campus.
The guns in the hands of Americans were eventually targeting their own people.
What we feel most heartbroken is that such shooting cases have become common on campus.
guns have become an important reason for the instability of the United States, but the United States does not ban guns. Even after the shooting, the United States has blurred data for the political consequences of protecting privacy and lobbying with guns.
is obvious that the United States will not ban guns.
Why can’t you ban the gun
Every time a shooting occurs, the United States has made some painless statements, the superiors discuss, the people observe silently, and finally some useless policies. What’s the end?
matter has not been resolved, but has become more and more intense. Do they really don’t care about the lives of the people? Or do you think such violent behavior is like a normal fight?
is actually not the case. The United States also has its own necessity. We cannot look at that country from the perspective of China.
Starting from the most basic survival, the United States is an immigrant country. Think about how Indians were kicked out of that land?
What can the United States rely on to become an independent country?
can only be said that the theory of survival of the world has been fully interpreted by the United States.
Guns have become a necessity when the first Europeans were sent to North America to face beasts alone with strong Indians.
The society at that time could not protect the lives of ordinary people. To survive, we could only rely on ourselves.
We should have heard of the term " Western Cowboy ". This term is given the impression of being handsome, but don't forget that these cowboys are all people with guns.
is deserted in the western United States. People ride horses and guns, walking in the cruel world, and they become particularly indifferent and cruel.
At that time, guns were life-saving weapons and essential equipment for hunting.
People regard guns as daily as the kitchen knives and scissors we use now.
Later, American civilians overthrew British rule with guns and established an independent country. Everyone saw the sacredness of guns. They regarded guns as a symbol of freedom and democracy. They were what the American people should have and could not be easily deprived of by the government.
During the Civil War, the whole nation was soldiers. In order to ensure victory in the north, Lincoln implemented an open policy for the production of guns and ammunition.
in 1791 approved the Bill of Rights, which included the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, . stipulates that
A well-managed militia is necessary for the security of a free country. The people have the right to hold and carry weapons and shall not infringe on the rights.
is visible. The use of guns is caused by historical reasons in the United States, and we must face this point.
Another thing is the difference in American cultural concepts.
The United States is a country that emphasizes individual freedom and individual rights.
Their legal authority is different from ours. The laws set by the United States are just a provision that citizens can do things outside the law, but the government must follow the law.
Simply put, the United States respects civil rights and weakens the government's power.
When we hear this, we may think, isn’t this very good?
What we lack most now is freedom and human rights!
Then let’s take a look at a real case that caused a sensation in the whole of the United States.
In the 1970s, there was a case of rape in the house in the United States. At that time, the victim's neighbor asked the police for help, but the police did not control it, resulting in the two neighbors being raped.
survivors sued the police department, and the result was that the police had no specific legal obligation to protect citizens from being infringed upon. Even in the Supreme Court, the trial given by the police was ignored and won the case.
Why is this?
Because the government's power is reduced, the responsibility to citizens is also reduced, and the law will be ineffective.
If the people want freedom, the government is unwilling to take care of it too much.
Under such freedom, if you want to ensure safety, you can only open your guns for self-defense.
In addition to these basic reasons, one more important reason is that the United States can obtain huge economic and production benefits by selling guns. The industrial chain of arms trade, , has supported many people in the United States and has also added a lot of economic sources to the United States' treasury.
guns have become an important production force in the US economy .
. Manufacturers of guns have money and say, and no one is willing to ban the government from robbing them. Once
is banned from robbing, it is equivalent to cutting off its economic interests.
For this reason, this group of gun manufacturers even created a powerful interest group NRA, the full name is the National Rifle Association.
This association is amazing. It controls the rights of many aspects of politics and economy. They use the Second Amendment of the Constitution as their theoretical basis and have developed nearly 5 million people as their members. has only more than 20 million US government staff, including all departments in more than 20 million. It can be imagined that the members of this association are one-quarter of the government staff, and it can be said that there are many people.
In history, the National Rifle Association has grown and developed by itself, publicly participated in political activities, and tried to influence the appointment of the Supreme Court. There are 8 presidents who are members of the association.
So in the eyes of politicians, this association cannot afford to offend.
's policy on gun ban can only be said that it is not that the United States does not want to implement it, but that it cannot implement it.
When Obama was in office, he was unable to take drastic action, but he did make efforts, such as proposing a bill to comprehensively manage guns and strengthening management. In order to protect the safety of students and patients, focused on the training of employees in schools and hospitals, and severely cracked down on the purchase of illegal guns in China, and all guns were implemented in a real-name system.
These policies have reduced the occurrence of shootings to a certain extent.
But after Trump came to power, he overturned all Obama's policies and re-supported the legalization of domestic guns, causing more shootings. The difficulty in implementing the policy of
is no longer something that a president can solve.
Of course, it is not unfair to say that gun flooding is attributed to human reasons. The interests and economic entanglements are the fundamental factors that cause this situation.
In today's era, there are quite a lot of anxiety in American society, shooting incidents are becoming more and more frequent, and campuses are even more hit areas. However, we can foresee that in the next few decades, the US's gun ban will not be implemented, and they will not implement it.
In a peek at the increasingly severe social problems in the United States, we will sigh that China's gun ban policy protects the Chinese people.
What do you think about these shootings in the United States?
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